
Last Line 2: Ring Around the Sun
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Narrated by:
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David Thorpe
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By:
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Harper Fox
MI5 agents Marina Griffin and Leo South are made to be together. But their mission's-end encounter with Ashkeloi gypsies in the Russian forest reveals a terrifying prophecy - a fate that will tear them apart, and re-echo into the lives of their sons, John and Mike.
Thirty years later, a deadly climate shift has opened up a seaway through the Arctic, and nuclear war is imminent as the global superpowers make a grab for the oil reserves suddenly exposed. Like everyone else, Mike and John just want to ride out the storm and protect the people they love, especially their boy Quin. But love isn't enough when the stakes are this high, and Mike and John too are in the grip of a destiny they can't avoid. Summoned from their Glastonbury farmhouse to the office of their ex-boss, James Webb, they discover not only the truth about their heritage but the forces they will have to encounter if the war for the Arctic - and the future of humanity - is to be won.
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The magic was at least relevant in this installment. In a near complete reversal from book one, the magic dominated in book 2. The magic was overwhelming, but unreliable. It was very frustrating as a reader having to guess whether each scene was or wasn’t magical & why. I was annoyed, again, that Griffin & Michael split up for the main action sequence. The bad guys were so much better at using their powers, I wondered why they even bothered with our comparatively inept heroes. Beyond bothering, *Every* main bad guy went out of their way to go full Bond Villain in their exposition. This works as a Bond satire. If that wasn’t the intent, not so much. The characters became almost caricatures.
There were some continuity errors. The oddest: after making a point that the guys reserved their most energetic exertions for when Quinn is out of the house, they go full throttle when Quinn’s new girlfriend first stays over. An otherwise sexy scene left me full of tension about how breakfast was bound to be a nightmare of cringe. Apparently no one overheard? Then after the aforementioned car crash (it was only mostly fatal…), the guys basically forget Quinn exists which, under the circumstances, was carelessly rude.
While I want to enjoy plots with fortune telling, I rarely do. This was not an exception. The fortune telling was heavy handed, and I am still unsure what the motivation was beyond “magical minority”. That might not be as insulting as usual since most of these characters are magical, but again, given that they’re mostly caricatures, it kind of is. It doesn’t help that there’s a thru line about an amulet that doesn’t pay off in this installment. It’s carefully tended, which I normally appreciate, but much is made of the amulet when this story could exist fine without it, so instead I resent the attention I paid to a boring detail.
Fans of the author who are also completists might like this book. I recommend skimming the first parts if you do.
Steam: Med-high with kink & cheating.
There’s M/M kink on page. But as I mentioned, some of it was spoiled by the potential for a houseguest to overhear them. Also, there is cheating. I never quite figured out the rationale for it. It was addressed as a work duty/sacrifice yet I didn’t buy it. Just puzzling to me why that choice was made.
Narration: Was a combination of pretty good and confusing. The varied voices were ok, but occasionally applied to wrong characters. The Russian pronunciations were internally consistent but wrong. I again found myself confusing the main characters more than a couple times, which was both a prose & narration issue here.
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Really enjoyed it
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Good, but leaves you wanting...
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exceptional
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Too different from the first one
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Kind of amazing!
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Weird
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Fantastic story line!
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David Thorpe is AMAZING! Accents, acting, everthing spot-on. Totally worth a listen.
Hey, it's Harper Fox... what could be bad? FANTASTIC narration by David Thorpe!
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It leaves you hanging
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